189 Comments

  1. UnCivilServant

    President announces construction of new ‘Trump class’ of battleships

    Gold-plated?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well he did call it the Golden Fleet.

      • UnCivilServant

        We’re not talking about aircraft carriers here.

      • robodruid

        Ukraininan drone warfare is going to change things, until an EMP burns out the satalites.

      • UnCivilServant

        If baked into the design, you could put enough flak into the air to erase the swarms.

        Add in an electronic warefare suite and you can disrupt their ability to communicate too. Even if it means the sats are all offline in the area until the drones are dead.

      • R.J.

        Radio disruptions can be achieved with far less than an EMP.

      • juris imprudent

        Big ship, big target – no two ways around that. It is the pattern our DoD has been doing because it suits the MIC; simple and plentiful will always beat complex and few. But that isn’t nearly as profitable. Nor does it stroke egos (usually flag officers, but in this case the CiC).

      • WTF

        Big armor and big countermeasures also means increased survivability. It really depends on the design and capabilities.

      • R C Dean

        “simple and plentiful will always beat complex and few”

        See, also, Shermans v Tigers.

      • WTF

        The Shermans also had multiple advantages besides numbers. Superior rate of fire, ability to fire accurately while moving, and speed and maneuverability.

      • UnCivilServant

        There’s a difference when you are drowning the panzers in something that hits almost as hard versis the gnat attack approach.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Battleships are mobile artillery, for pounding third world sites. Plus, they make great drone launch platforms that are armored.

        Big target? Yes, but every thing in the military is a target.

      • R C Dean

        I’d be interested to see an accounting of how effective drone attacks have been on Russian tanks v. Javelins and artillery. Somewhere I thought I saw an analysis that the drones don’t do well against armor and have been used mainly to finish off disabled tanks.

        A lot of the small/very cheap “FPV” drones basically carry a hand grenade. Good against infantry and thin-skinned vehicles, basically pointless against tanks unless you can get it into an open hatch.

      • juris imprudent

        Do I need to remind everyone of the Millenium Challenge wargame? How our brilliant technology gave us an overwhelming edge – until of course the enemy didn’t cooperate.

      • dbleagle

        Ahhhh MC. That was a cluster fuck of the highest magnitude,

        Don’t forget the 9th Infantry Division (Hi Tech) that the 3d ACR destroyed in 1985. They reset the FTX and the 3d ACR swept through them again. It was glorious to watch

      • Swiss Servator

        So, you have seen the plans, armament, defenses and such?

        You can have the old Gary Hart Navy of 2000 row boats – I saw their predecessors dredged up from the bottom of the Potomac River (Jefferson’s gunboats) and sitting in a museum.

      • Threedoor

        Fibre drone laughs at battleship.

    • SDF-7

      Given DDX, Constellation, the America class, etc. etc. etc… I wouldn’t count any chickens on this front until at least the keel is laid — and I certainly wouldn’t worry too much about it until something is commissioned. Too many opportunities (and likely a long enough design and construction time that OMB will be out of office and hence priorities can change) for it to be sidelined / reconsidered, etc. as we’ve seen with all the other “ground breaking” changes in naval classes that went nowhere.

      That said… WTF isn’t wrong in that a big stable armored platform that can take missile hits and deliver railgun rounds has been the sort of thing we’ve found a use for in the past. Honestly, I would worry a lot less about drones compared to cavitating torpedoes… I have no idea how you can practically armor against that these days (of course, not a naval architect either… maybe there are ways).

      Trump does need to just grow his TR stache already… he so wants to be him from what I can tell.

      • juris imprudent

        We are a loooooonnnggg way from defense production of WWII. If this wasn’t something the Navy already wanted, it’s going to sit in the requirements process until the next administration.

    • Not Adahn

      If it’s 100x more powerful, and a modern CVN puts out 250MW…

      Hayexplosives has a job for life! Think of the rail guns and lasers you could power with 25GW!

  2. UnCivilServant

    DHS Raises Self-Deport Bonus to $3K

    I wonder how many are now thinking “if we hide long enough it’ll be $5K”

    • robodruid

      At 5K, still a bargin.
      Of course, if they get caught, then no money…..

    • Fourscore

      Somalis rejoice, more opportunities

  3. UnCivilServant

    Trump DOJ Sues D.C. For Banning ‘Most Popular Firearms’

    Popularity has nothing to do with it, the whole regulation is beyond the remit of any government and those who apply force to disarm the populace belong behind bars.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Entry point. Popular = Common.

    • R C Dean

      Indeed. Principled arguments have no place in a court of law.

      These days, at least.

    • Not Adahn

      I wonder if Bondi is going to quietly quash this. I also wonder if the guy who approved this is going to be demoted.

  4. Gender Traitor

    New Docs Reveal Shocking Lengths Obama And Biden Went To Protect Hillary Clinton, Get Trump

    …and nothing else will happen. 😒

    • Nephilium

      Why? Were they wiped?

      • rhywun

        Eeew. I don’t want the job of wiping any of them.

      • SDF-7

        I guess rhywun doesn’t want to be the butt of the joke anymore.

      • Ted S.

        Are you saying they tuchus for a ride?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Sounds like a smear campaign.

    • R C Dean

      +1 statute of limitations

  5. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    Heya Banjos- how YOU doin’ ?

    Vacation Day 3 update- hungover AF/tittys status remains calm

  6. Nephilium

    Buried Pompeii site reveals secret behind Rome’s enduring structures

    It was the fascinus what gave it strength!

    • (((Jarflax

      If you bind a bunch of fascini together in a fasces is that Gay? Or is it ok as long as the balls don’t touch?

      • EvilSheldon

        The balls might not be touching, but the shafts are…

  7. juris imprudent

    In July of this year, after having sought the release of the first appendix for more than six years, Grassley succeeded in securing its declassification.

    Six years? There are names of people who stonewalled that, and godammit those names should be public and punished.

    • WTF

      The president can declassify anything he wants to, so why didn’t Grassley just ask Trump to do so?

  8. Tres Cool

    “At the site, researchers found that Romans used a specific method of developing durable, self-healing concrete — a substance that revolutionized architecture.”

    Given to them by aliens.

    • UnCivilServant

      Don’t say that, or next it will have come from Illegal Aliens as proof of why we shouldn’t rid outselves of criminal invaders.

      • R.J.

        Definitely keep that “illegal alien” part quiet.

    • R.J.

      All we did was give them an understanding of drink specials and ladies’ night (and that got really out of hand). Those clever Romans figured out concrete all by themselves.

    • R C Dean

      I read about that technique a few years ago. After plopping down some coin to have stucco repaired at the new house, I’m wondering why we aren’t using it now.

      • Gender Traitor

        Because if we did you wouldn’t need to have your stucco repaired.

      • R.J.

        You answered your own question. Job security!

      • Tres Cool

        …think of the glaziers

    • rhywun

      Given to them by aliens.

      Did you see that on the History Channel?

  9. DEG

    Romans used a technique called “hot mixing” in which they added quicklime to water, volcanic rock and ash, triggering a chemical reaction that naturally heated the mixture.

    The method created white chunks called lime clasts, and when water seeped in, those clasts would dissolve and reform into calcium carbonate, allowing the concrete to heal and seal the damage.

    Fox is a little slow here. The discovery that the Romans used self-healing concrete is a few years old.

    • Not Adahn

      Hey DEG, which Kyro did you get?

      Relatedly, this site has introduced me to many products I greatly enjoy and give as gifts that I would not have found on my own. I’ve received gushingly positive thankyou notes about Villa Mexico’s salsa negra and Asher’s candies.

      • DEG

        All four of their whiskeys – Malt, Oloroso, Wood Smoke, and Peat Smoke.

        The Malt is the only one I’ve had so far. It was good.

        Thanks again for the review!

      • Sean

        Asher’s candies

        I love being able to go buy stuff factory direct there. We only go around select holidays, but they’re always pretty busy.

      • slumbrew

        I’m tickled that you liked the salsa so much.

        I may have to take a hit to my low carb ways and give them a visit; it’s been too long.

    • SDF-7

      I thought they all needed minotaurs now.

      Or vampires…. but why would Pie be so interested in…. ohhhhhh… I get it now!

      • Tres Cool

        She thicker than oatmeal.

    • (((Jarflax

      From what gets linked here I assumed all ‘romances’ now involved cryptids

    • DEG

      Obvious thirst trap is… yum

      • DEG

        I should have known.

    • Tres Cool

      The deep state didnt manage to destroy the county with politicking and getting democrats to do it from the inside.
      Why not destroy the country the old fashioned way with a nuclear exchange?

      • Gender Traitor

        Well, they DID start the Civil War…

      • Drake

        Doing our best to primary hi out – despite Trump’s support for him. I’ll never vote for him in any election, I don’t care who’s running against him.

      • juris imprudent

        Yeah but Drake – look at the people in the state who back him. I just don’t get why.

      • Drake

        I get the MIC donors like General Dynamics fund him. I don’t claim to understand the old school SC political connections.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I suspect, like our own Yertl the Turtle, he does a good job of generating a goodly amount of federal government largess in the state, combined with the other party running awful candidates.

        So no one wants to rock he boat.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Same problem with KY that McConnell is ours.

        Despite having pulled off a grand political move that may well have saved the republic (or at least gave it a little more time), that old fuck needs to go.

    • creech

      An acquaintance in West Texas used to refer to guys like Graham as “light in the loafers.” Graham reminds me of the joke about the gay who was refused service in a bar. He told the bar tender he would sic his dog “Fang” on him if he continued to refuse service. Bar tender says “Go ahead, sic your dog on me.” “Sic’em Fang” the gay tells his huge Doberman. Fang leaps up on bar and goes “Bowsie Wowsie.”

      • kinnath

        light in the loafers.

        It’s been a long time since I’ve heard that one.

  10. Ted S.

    Today in “You don’t hate politicians enough”:

    I lost an election. Have pity on me for resorting to escorts and blow.

    A former Fine Gael councillor and cathaoirleach of Cavan County Council has been jailed for two years and nine months for stealing €172,000 from a housing charity.

    Seán McKiernan pleaded guilty to the theft of just over €172,000 from Navan Mental Health Housing Association in 2019 and 2020.

    During a sentencing hearing, Trim Circuit Court heard that the 44-year-old used the money to pay male escorts from South America and to procure drugs, including liquid ecstasy, crystal meth and cocaine.
    […]
    Mr Baker said that McKiernan had been hit hard by losing his council seat in 2014.

    His drug use began in 2016, on a sporadic basis, but by the time of his offending he had “disappeared into a haze of substance abuse” and a by-product of that was his engagement of male escorts.

    Read the whole thing.

    • Rat on a train

      He said there was too much money in the charity’s bank account and that it needed to demonstrate spending in order to keep funding from the HSE.

      I can believe this.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Who writes checks for hookers?

      • (((Jarflax

        Jerry Springer springs to mind

      • Ted S.

        He claimed the money was loans to people who needed to pay their rent.

      • DrOtto

        The bigger question is, what hookers take checks?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Checkbooks?

    • rhywun

      “Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?”

    • NoDakMat

      I don’t know what a cathaoirleach is, but I propose that from now on, we append “leach” onto every single political title.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Presiding officer of the Senate, pronounced ca-HEER-loch. I had to look it up.

        (Hi again, NDM!)

  11. Grumbletarian

    DHS Raises Self-Deport Bonus to $3K

    Can we offer it to all the socialists infesting the nation?

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Any recs on Arthurian legend?

    T H white

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Splitters

    In a statement, Pence welcomed the new hires and said they “bring a wealth of experience, a love of country, and a deep commitment to the Constitution and Conservative Movement that will further the cause of liberty.”

    AAF President Tim Chapman told NPR that after learning of the Heritage staffers’ interest in leaving the organization, AAF raised $13 million toward a $15 million goal in two weeks to help fund their salaries over the next three years.

    The move dramatically expands AAF’s size, Chapman said, taking the organization from 18 employees to more than 30. Chapman said AAF is bolstering its research team in an effort to fill what it sees as a gap within the modern conservative movement.

    It’s like a clown civil war.

    • kinnath

      grifter gonna grift

    • Rat on a train

      The next Lincoln Project?

  14. The Late P Brooks

    It’s for your own good

    Civil rights groups and pro-gun advocates in Australia have raised concerns that new fast-tracked laws will place undue restrictions on firearms and protests in the wake of the Bondi shootings.

    On Monday, the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) recalled its parliament to debate a raft of new laws such as banning the phrase “globalise the intifada”, limiting the number of guns one person can own, and greater police powers for protests.

    NSW Premier Chris Minns said some may feel the changes had “gone too far” but they were needed to keep the community safe.

    A pro-gun politician said the laws unfairly target law-abiding gun owners while civil libertarians said restrictions on protests were an affront to democracy.

    Nanny knows best.

    • Ted S.

      SugarFreeing links *is* for your own good, isn’t it?

      • Rat on a train

        Reading the details could be depressing.

    • rhywun

      Utopia will be achieved this time.

    • EvilSheldon

      To play Devil’s Advocate here, exactly how many guns does one need to do a spree killing?

      • Common Tater

        Zero?

      • Not Adahn

        One of the guntubers was saying the Ausses, like our politicos were debating which features to ban ’cause “no one needs…” The specifically mentioned a proposal to ban straight-pull actions since they let the shooter go “as fast as a semi-auto.”

        I have not seen any followup.

      • Ted S.

        More than you lost in your last boating accident.

      • juris imprudent

        Apparently one of the Aussie-idiot-politicos actually talked about “belt fed shotguns”.

      • EvilSheldon

        “…let the shooter go “as fast as a semi-auto.”

        But then how can I bang it out with the cops, when they come to arrest me for owning a gas stove or misgendering some freak on TwiX?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Field expedient explosives and arson are actually a lot more effective.

    • rhywun

      Not bloomed? Weird.

      Ugh, awful story.

      • Not Adahn

        Rosebud isn’t just for naming sleds yanno.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      A rose-toris, maybe?

    • creech

      We air our grievances all year round. Feats of strength? Shit, I find it hard to open a screw top bottle of wine these days.

  15. Common Tater

    “In a world exclusive, the Daily Mail can reveal that a new investigation has concluded that the Zodiac killer and the murderer of the Black Dahlia were the same man.

    The FBI and California police departments are reviewing the explosive theory – and a trove of damning evidence has been unearthed by independent investigators and is undergoing forensic analysis.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/crime-desk/article-15392213/Zodiac-Black-Dahlia-suspect-identified-killer.html

    Ted Cruz is the Black Dahlia murderer?

  16. Common Tater

    “Attorneys working on behalf of Mike Tyson and Ric Flair have sued the pair’s former cannabis business partners over allegations of money laundering, extortion and criminal fraud.

    The legendary heavyweight boxer and wrestling icon both agreed to deals with a marketing company, Carma, to sell cannabis products, like gummies, using their names and likenesses. Tyson’s product, known as Mike Bites, was a THC gummy shaped like Evander Holyfield’s ear that ‘Iron Mike’ infamously bit during their 1997 rematch.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-15407919/Mike-Tyson-Ric-Flair-sue-ex-cannabis-business.html

    LOLOL

  17. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “Trump Class Battleship”
    God, just so stupid. Hopefully we’re also investing in a new class of salvage type ships because they will be needed against any near peer and plenty of not so near peers.

    • R.J.

      I want Trump cannons and Trump battle cry vuvuzelas too.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    A new day dawns

    New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced two deputy mayors Friday morning on Staten Island.

    Mamdani announced Leila Bozorg as his deputy mayor for housing and Julie Su as his deputy mayor for economic justice, a brand new role in city government.

    He made the announcement at a Department of Sanitation garage that is being converted to more than 200 units of affordable housing.

    “The ground we stand on is a physical testament to government’s power to transform the lives of those it serves when it dares to tackle challenges with ambition, imagination and competence,” Mamdani said. “Our administration will remember New Yorkers that have otherwise been forgotten. It will solve issues that have otherwise been forgotten.”

    Okay, Commissar.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice? Get out while you can white folks.

      • juris imprudent

        I am a fugitive from economic justice!

    • Nephilium

      Maybe… just maybe, it’s time for a national language.

      • Common Tater

        Everyone already knows it’s English.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Su served as acting U.S. labor secretary in the Biden administration until January 2025. Before her role in federal government, she was California’s labor secretary from 2019-2021.

    As the very first deputy mayor for economic justice, Mamdani said Su will be tasked with tackling “the inequality that too often permeates across our city. To go after unfair labor practices and corporate abuses, and above all to build a city that puts workers and consumers before profit.”

    “This focus could not come at a more critical moment. Working people across the five boroughs and across our nation are being crushed by a cost-of-living crisis. They are laboring under unfair conditions, watching their pay stagnate, and living with the daily reality of widening inequality,” Su said.

    EQUALIZE! EQUALIZE!

    • WTF

      Oh boy! Here comes the $50/hour minimum wage!

    • R.J.

      I thought there were impeachment papers pending for him.

    • WTF

      This should be Trump’s response: “No”

    • EvilSheldon

      Aren’t most of them in jail?

  20. Common Tater

    “The US press have suffered about as many assaults this year as in the previous three years combined, the organization states in a new report.

    That rise is largely because whenever there is significant civil unrest, journalists cover it, which makes them more vulnerable to attacks. But anti-media rhetoric from the US president and other public leaders has also increased hostility towards journalists, which can lead to more violence, according to press freedom advocates and journalism researchers.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/violence-against-journalists-increase-trump

    How about stop making shit up?

    • EvilSheldon

      Hopefully we can do even better next year. Stretch goals!

  21. PieInTheSky

    I have a question which may help me understand why the American m8nd cannot fathom the roundabout. I remember reading once that the first time they were implemented in the US they were implemented wrong. As in bot respecting the basic rule of cars inside the roundabout always have right of way. And you could be in the roundabout and still need to yield or have signs or trafic lights. Which is off course stupid. Is this historically true?

    • Nephilium

      I have seen roundabouts with stop signs at both entrances and exits.

      Yes, they were implemented wrong here in the US for quite a while.

    • PieInTheSky

      Alao having more than 3 lanes in a roundabout is silly. i hope y’all aint doing that.

    • creech

      In New Jersey, drivers yield to no one.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Because there are crosswalks at the edges of them, and pedestrians have the right of way here. Always.

      • PieInTheSky

        pedestrians sure when you exit the roundabout but not cars

    • trshmnstr

      I dunno about historically, but all the roundabouts I’ve encountered here have been yield when entering, right of way when in the roundabout or exiting.

      The most common mistake is treating the yield as a stop. The next most common mistake is turning right from an inside lane. I’ve only seen people come to a stop in the circle a couple times over the years. Usually silver hairs who don’t know what a roundabout is.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      The ones in my suburban neighborhood are one lane, have yield signs at the entrances, and crosswalks about 10 feet back from the roundabout.

  22. Common Tater

    “Greta Thunberg has been arrested in London after taking part in a protest holding a sign expressing support for Palestine Action-affiliated hunger strikers.

    The Swedish activist arrived after a protest had begun outside the offices of an insurance company in London and she sat down with a sign saying “I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide.””

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/23/greta-thunberg-arrested-london-palestine-action-prisoners-placard

    Deport her to Uganda.

    • PieInTheSky

      On the gypsy front i would rather send more of the locsl ones you way. As refugees or whatever

      • PieInTheSky

        Shit wrong threading. I blame wordpress

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I take comfort in the extreme improbability of steering you around my picturesque town.

    • creech

      When will her fifteen minutes be up?

  23. PieInTheSky

    Alcohol wise whycome Americans have metric proof and not british proof?

    • Common Tater

      What do you mean?

      • PieInTheSky

        What do you mean what do I mean? American 100 proof id 50% alcohol. British 100 proof is 57.15% alcohol. Just dividing by 2 seems awfuly metric to me

      • Not Adahn

        American v. HRH gunpowder formulations.

      • Not Adahn

        [not actually true, I just want to start a myth]

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Pie, I wish you were here to chase away these local gypsies on the street corners. I’d pay you in tacos, or California burritos.

      • Common Tater

        What about the French scale?

      • Nephilium

        Not Adahn:

        If you’re serious about wanting to start a rumor, I can probably start seeding that rumor out here at some cocktail bars and gatherings.

      • Not Adahn

        Go for it! I think this one has potential — sufficiently plausible, relates to a term still in use, hard the verify.

      • Not Adahn

        What about the French scale?

        A mistake.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        What’s that in stones?

        (j/k; I like stones)

    • Nephilium

      More importantly, why do we not use the Imperial pint for our beers?

      More seriously, I would guess due to France being a prime location for the creation of cocktails, helping to mold the liquor and cocktail world.

      • EvilSheldon

        My local English pub offers Imperial pints. I always refer to them as ‘real pints’.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        There used to be an English pub around here that served all their beers in Imperial pints.

        One year during the World Cup, AB sent them a bunch of Bud Light/World Cup branded pint glasses, which they proceeded to use for water.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Locking the barn door

    The Federal Communications Commission on Monday blacklisted all new foreign-made drones and components over concerns the equipment poses “an unacceptable risk” to national security — ensnaring Chinese drone-maker DJI after long-time concerns that the tech gives Beijing a foothold inside U.S. critical infrastructure.

    The tech was placed on the commission’s “Covered List,” barring DJI and other foreign drone manufacturers from receiving the FCC’s approval to sell new drone models for import or sale in the U.S. In Monday’s announcement, the agency said that the move “will reduce the risk of direct [drone] attacks and disruptions, unauthorized surveillance, sensitive data exfiltration and other [drone] threats to the homeland.”

    FCC Chair Brendan Carr said in a statement that while drones offer the potential to boost public safety and the U.S.’ posture on global innovation, “criminals, terrorists and hostile foreign actors have intensified their weaponization of these technologies, creating new and serious threats to our homeland.”

    I guess all those drones will suddenly awaken to the call of their wily yellow masters.

  25. PieInTheSky

    My fitness post is about to drop today. i hope you all realize this means no one drinks alcohol the next 3 days. For fitness.

    Except me ima gonna get fucked up

    • Not Adahn

      I’m already panning on Kentucky Coffee and eggnog.

    • DEG

      no one drinks alcohol the next 3 days

      No.

      But on the other hand, I will be on the way to the gym about when your post drops. After I get done, I need to clean up so I can meet some current and former coworkers for beer. So I’m going to miss when the post is live, but I’ll read it later.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    The ruling comes as China hawks in Congress amplify warnings about the security risks of drones made by DJI, which accounts for more than 90% of the global market share. But efforts to crack down on Capitol Hill have been met with some pushback due to the potential impacts of curbing the drone usage on U.S. businesses and law enforcement. A wide variety of sectors, including construction, energy, agriculture and mining companies, as well as local police and fire departments across the country, deploy DJI-made drones.

    But the rule won’t ground the thousands of unmanned aircraft already deployed in the U.S. The FCC said on Monday that the decision “does not affect drones or drone components that are currently sold in the United States,” according to the agency, meaning that drones previously authorized by the FCC are still usable. A spokesperson for the FCC did not immediately respond to questions about potential plans to retroactively ban foreign-made drones or components.

    Who will advocate for common sense drone control?

    • creech

      It’s Hillary? Or Kommiela? Or Melinda? Or Meechele? Or even Erika? Inquiring minds want to know so that a “suicide” watch can begin.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Devices?

    Mercedes-Benz USA and parent company Daimer AG have agreed to pay $149.6 million to settle allegations that the automaker secretly installed devices in hundreds of thousands of vehicles to pass emission tests, a coalition of attorneys general announced Monday.

    According to the coalition, between 2008 and 2016, the German automaker equipped more than 211,000 diesel passenger cars and vans with software devices that optimized emission controls during tests but reduced the controls during normal operations. The devices enabled vehicles to far exceed legal limits for nitrogen oxides, a pollutant that can cause respiratory illnesses and contributes to smog.

    You have to hit the make-believe numbers somehow.

    • R.J.

      Agreed. I see no evil done here.

  28. Common Tater

    ““You cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston has had in safety, jobs, and economic development, in education, without talking about the Somali community that has lifted our city up. We are proud and we are grateful for our Somali community and for our Somali American neighbors. Boston and the country are clear that hate has no place in our society,” Wu said.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2025/12/23/boston-mayor-michelle-wu-somalis/

    CWAC

    • R.J.

      I can’t wait to see people disprove that with data. No doubt they made the city’s finances go even more negative and added no substantial business base.

    • WTF

      You cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston has had in safety, jobs, and economic development, in education, without talking about the Somali community that has lifted our city up.

      Specifics and details, please.

    • slumbrew

      Silly me, living here for decades and somehow missing the vast, irreplaceable Somali community that apparently surrounds me.

      Or that’s bullshit.

      One of the two.

  29. Shpip

    Well, that’s just plain unfortunate

    Former GOP Sen. Ben Sasse revealed Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer and does not have long to live.

    In a lengthy statement on X, the 53-year-old said bluntly: “Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.”

    He left the Senate to become president of the local university, only to resign his position sixteen months later. At the time he left, the rumors regarding the reason for his stepping down were rampant. I guess we know why now.

  30. Not Adahn

    EvilSheldon and/or other shooters lurking and otherwise:

    Feel like going to Aruba?

    https://2026pahc.ipscmatches.org/

    The PanAmerican will be held at the Wela Shooting Range in Savaneta, Aruba.
    Opening Ceremonies are on Aug 25, and the main match is Aug 26 to Aug 30.
    The match will be 24 stages, six stages/day over four days with the awards ceremony on Aug 30, 2026. Round count 464.

    For those paying attention, this is the week following the USPSA Racegun Nationals at Cardinal. I have made arrangements with the match to accommodate us arriving late – more on that later.

    This IPSC match is open to all USPSA members. We will be sending Division and Category Teams, and team will be based on the 2025 Handgun WS.

    That said, we are likely to receive enough slots for anyone to go that is interested in shooting an International Level 4 match. This is a great opportunity for many of our members to participate in an international major match, as this is “our” Intercontinental Championship.

    There are many flights into Aruba, which is about four hours out of Miami. The island is known for its tourism and festive atmosphere. The range is a short drive from the airport, as are many hotels and house rentals.

    They are expecting 600 competitors from 20 countries. Something to note. Island time can be different. Be prepared for long dinners and a super chill environment.

    Message from Match Director Kenneth Lacle:

    It is with great excitement that we invite you to join us for the2026 Pan American Handgun Championship, set against the stunning backdrop ofAruba.

    We look forward to welcoming you to Aruba for an event filled with world-class shooting, lasting friendships, and warm island hospitality.

    Aruba is a Caribbean paradise where sunshine smiles year-round. With pristine white-sand beaches, turquoise waters, and a welcoming island spirit, it’s the perfect escape for relaxation and adventure alike. From world-class diving and sailing to vibrant nightlife and cultural charm, Aruba offers unforgettable experiences for every traveler.

    The following divisions are available:

    Open
    Production Optics (Carry Optics)
    Optics (Limited Optics)
    Production
    Standard (Limited)
    Classic (Single Stack)
    Revolver
    (Yes, the new IPSC Optics, or as we know it, Limited Optics, Division will be available. There is no PCC or MR in this match.)

    If you are interested in attending, please submit the following application before Dec 31, 2025.

    https://ipsc-usa.com/2026-pan-american/

    • slumbrew

      Shooting aside, I can recommend Aruba.

      • Ted S.

        What about Jamaica, Bermuda, and the Bahamas?

    • EvilSheldon

      Oh baby, don’t tempt me…

    • EvilSheldon

      Same month as Glibscruise II: The Gritty Reboot. I might have to just take a sabbatical from work for all of August…

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